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Meeting pledges to triple nuclear capacity by 2050 will mean opportunities for all stages of the nuclear supply chain. These opportunities - and associated challenges - were widely discussed at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2024 conference which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuel-cycle-players-explore-opportunities-and-chall
Experts planning to launch multilateral body that could help deployment of plants ‘at unprecedented pace’
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Monday, 19 June 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/proposed-international-nuclear-bank-would-mobilise-massive-amounts-of-capital-for-reactors-6-4-2023
The nuclear market will be able to respond as it transitions away from the oversupply of recent years - but decisions to increase capacity in the front-end of the fuel cycle will need to be taken soon, according to speakers at World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2023 (WNFC 2023).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Market-dynamics-under-spotlight-at-WNFC-2023
The agreement by Canada, France, Japan, the UK and USA to leverage their civil nuclear power sectors to ensure a stable supply of nuclear fuel for existing and future reactors came as G7 climate, energy and environment ministers concluded a two-day meeting with a promise to accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuels.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 18 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Five-G7-countries-in-nuclear-fuel-agreement
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Savannah River Site (SRS) says the H Canyon facility recently initiated actions to recycle a small amount of used highly enriched uranium (HEU) stored in the Site’s H Area in order to down-blend it into high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU). “The projected demand for HALEU far exceeds the current supply,” said HALEU Programme Manager Jeff Hasty for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the site’s managing and operating contractor.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshaleu-production-planned-for-savannah-river-site-as-clean-up-continues-10731144
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has recently published a 73-page study, which tracks the progress of selected small modular reactor (SMR) designs towards deployment. NEA says the SMR designs are at various stages of development, from fundamental research on new concepts to commercial deployment and operation of mature designs.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 22 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssmr-development-tracked-by-nea-and-iaea-studies-10691068
Uranium company Okapi Resources plans to use the proceeds from a USD5.1 million fundraise for its recently announced investment in uranium enrichment technology as well for advancing its North American uranium projects.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Okapi-invests-in-innovative-enrichment-technology
2022 has been a "transformative" year for the company, CEO Tim Gitzel said, with record long-term contracting, the resumption of production at McArthur River and Key Lake, an increase in its ownership of Cigar Lake and its joint acquisition of Westinghouse. The company reported net earnings of CAD89 million (USD66.5 million) for the year.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 11 February 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Cameco-reaps-benefits-of-best-ever-fuel-market-fun
Denmark's Copenhagen Atomics has applied for its containerised small modular thorium molten salt reactor design to undergo Generic Design Assessment (GDA) in the UK.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscopenhagen-atomics-submits-molten-salt-smr-design-10500286
Canada’s Terrestrial Energy has completed a regulatory evaluation of packaging and cross-border transportation of Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) nuclear fuel in collaboration with France’s Orano.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 05 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsterrestrial-energy-and-orano-evaluate-imsr-fuel-packaging-and-transportation-10260419